“Hitler did not kill millions of people, millions were complacent enough to allow it to happen.”  -- Rwandan genocide memorial in essence

"These white people think this country belongs to them - they don't realize that they are only in charge right now because there's more of them than there are of us. The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedly-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians."  --Anna Mae Pictou

“I promised myself that when I was strong, I would fight everyone who was mean to the poor, whether they were kings or not.”  --Josephine Baker

"I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, "Devil, yesterday I broke wind to. Have you written it down on your list?"  --Martin Luther

"In the imagination of the simple patriot the nation is not a society but Society. Though its values are relative they appear, from his naïve perspective, to be absolute . . . . The nation is always endowed with an aura of the sacred, which is one reason why religions, which claim universality, are so easily captured and tamed by national sentiment, religion and patriotism merging in the process."  --Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society, 1936:96–97

"Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow."  --River Phoenix 

"Not all of us get to live out our dreams or reach the goals we've worked so hard for, but every day life is going to give you the chance to BE the person you've always dreamed of being - brave, kind, noble, just, empathetic, heroic. That's something neither life nor circumstance can ever deny you."  -- C. Robert Cargill